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NPFP Guest Post: Who helps the helper?

Welcome to RMB’s Naked Pictures of Faceless People, a series of guest posts from diverse anonymous bloggers. (Read more about NPFP’s origins.) These are the posts that are jumping to get out of us, but for whatever reason — safety, embarrassment, conflict of interest, protection of loved ones’ reputations or feelings, or so on [...]

Blog for Choice Day 2010: Trust Women

I’m pretty bad at planning ahead, and as usual I’m a step or two, and a day or two, behind the rest of the world (or the blogosphere, at least). So here is my belated entry to this year’s Blog for Choice Day, on the topic Trust Women:

First, go read Do you REALLY trust women? [...]

Whose child is this? Kyriarchy, privilege, and motherhood

Y’all know that I blame the kyriarchy — to talk only of patriarchy is to whitewash (ha ha) the myriad ways that people, including women, are variously oppressed and privileged. It pretends that all women experience oppression in the same ways, and focuses on sexism as the prime or only marginalization of women (because the [...]

I need to read to write: a good ol’ fashioned link post

After several months of completely ignoring its existence, I’m trying to clean up my Google Reader: trim it down, shift it over, and make it reflect the blogs that I actually want to read, but don’t catch in my Twitter stream due to missed timing (or the author — gasp! — not tweeting). I am [...]

A study in endurance and ableism

November 24

I am sitting in a chair, a sturdy folding table before me. My hands are clenched; my eyes are fixed on them but do not really see. I feel every systole and diastole of my heart, and it feels like it is trying to move five gallons of blood this hour, not just five [...]

#doctorwhofail

I watch a lot of Doctor Who — New Who, yes, but we’re also working our way through the old series (we started with, and recently finished, the 4th/Tom Baker era, and are now on to 5th/Peter Davidson). I also Tweet, um, rather a lot. And so I often find myself tweeting about Doctor Who [...]

Guest Post: This is what an activist looks like

While I’m trying to get well enough and focused enough to resume blogging regularly, I decided to look around for a guest post or two to share with you. When I first read this, is resonated with me, and at the moment, when even blogging seems beyond me, it feels particularly apt.

This piece, originally published [...]

Why I didn’t celebrate “World Mental Health Day”

When I heard Friday night that Saturday October 10 was World Mental Health Day, I was excited: another day like Celebrate Bisexuality Day, but for us crazy folk?? Sign me up! When I Googled it, however, this is what I found:

World Health Organization:

Mental, neurological and behavioural disorders are common in all countries around the world, [...]

Scarlet Saturday

(I almost put off writing this a day, just so I could title it Sunday Bloody Sunday. But I was afraid of a general reader revolt, especially after last month’s entry.)

Anyway.

It’s time for my monthly musings on menstruation. Honestly, I wasn’t sure what to write about this time: I’ve done charting and FAM to death, [...]

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I was just beating my head against a wall.

Odds are, what just flashed through your head when you read that was not an actual cranium impacting on a physical wall, because “beating one’s head against a wall” is a metaphor used so often it’s become cliche. It means to try to do the impossible, usually [...]

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